Lego Island
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North American cover art of Lego Island
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| Developer(s) | Mindscape |
| Publisher(s) | Mindscape |
| Distributor(s) | Electronic Arts |
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| Producer(s) | Scott Anderson |
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| Programmer(s) | Dennis Goodrow |
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| Writer(s) | Wes Jenkins |
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| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Lego Island is a Lego-based action-adventure video game developed and published by Mindscape. Released for Microsoft Windows on October 2, 1997, the game is the first in the Lego Island series, followed by Lego Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge, Island Xtreme Stunts and respective Lego sets.
Lego Island is a nonlinear video game with a first-person perspective. The player can choose to roam around and customize the island, build vehicles, or complete a series of missions including pizza delivery, jet ski racing, and catching an escaped prisoner. It also features a variety of playable characters who have unique abilities that can help the player throughout the game.
While there is no necessary objective to Lego Island, a special mission will occur if the player has built the police helicopter and is playing as Pepper Roni. Pepper's caretakers, Mama and Papa Brickolini, who run and own the Pizzeria, receive a call from the island's jail. Mistaking the caller for a police officer named Nick, Pepper is sent to deliver a pizza to the jail, which allows the Brickster to escape from his cell by using the pizza's fumes to melt the lock. He escapes in the police helicopter and steals the power brick from the top of the Information Center. If the helicopter is not built, the Brickster won't be able to escape at all and will reject the pizza. Once the Brickster escapes, police officers Nick and Laura Brick, the Infomaniac, and Papa and Mama Brickolini discover this and they realize the Brickster has tricked Pepper into freeing him. They assume that the Brickster has fled to the cave near the Residential Area, which is where he went during his last escape. The five then decide to send Pepper to recapture him.
Pepper proceeds to travel to the opposite side of the island to meet with Nick and Laura, encountering panicking citizens along the way. Once reaching the Residential Area, he finds two entrances blocked and heads through the only available entrance. After meeting up with Nick and Laura, the Brickster, who has stolen the ambulance from the hospital, greets them and a police officer contacts Nick and Laura about the stolen ambulance and that the Brickster is planning to disassemble the town with a laser gun that's powered by the stolen power brick, which can suck away bricks from buildings and plants. They then chase after him, but he gets away, dropping a brick that Laura plans to analyze. She sends Nick to guard the east side of the island and tells Pepper to chase after the Brickster and collect the Lego pieces that he drops. A long chase begins between Pepper and the Brickster in which he will stop in different areas to disassemble any nearby buildings and plants and will move when Pepper catches up. Occasionally, he will drop a piece to slow down Pepper if he gets close enough and he must pick it up. After collecting five pieces from the Brickster, he quickly heads for the cave entrance where he waits for Pepper to catch up. Once he does so, the Brickster drops one more piece and disappears into the cave. If the Pizzeria, Information Center, and Police Station are the only buildings left and the player does not manage to get the Brickster to drop all five pieces in the meantime, he will not head for the cave; instead he will disassemble the Pizzeria and the player will skip to the part where they rebuild the helicopter. After the Brickster goes into hiding, Nick and Laura arrive and they find out the six pieces that Pepper obtained from the Brickster are parts of the helicopter but four pieces are still missing. Pepper searches around the island for the remaining four pieces of the helicopter. Any of the previous six pieces that the player had missed can still be collected. Once all ten pieces are recovered, the Informaniac sends Pepper to rebuild the helicopter. After Pepper and Bil Ding rebuild the helicopter, the Informaniac discusses his plan to use an invention called the Pizza Turbo Chucker to help Nick and Laura catch the Brickster before he can disassemble the remaining buildings, which requires throwing pizzas to slow down the Brickster, now driving a stolen police motorcycle (although it's unknown what happened to the ambulance), and doughnuts, to speed Nick and Laura up from the rebuilt helicopter.
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